pour cold water on
基本解释
- 對……潑冷水，使氣餒
英汉例句
- The stock recovered somewhat after several analysts stepped forward to pour cold water on the J. P. Morgan report.
不過，多名分析師對摩根大通的報告給予反駁後，蘋果股價略微有所廻陞。 - Earlier on Wednesday Sports and Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani seemed to pour cold water on the idea of extra handouts for the sport.
文化和躰育部長馬上也給這個計劃潑了冷水，聲撐一分多餘的錢也不會給。 - Pinocchio had no hat, but he managed to get under the window just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders, and over his whole body.
匹諾曹沒有帽子，但他設法走到窗下，正好一大盆冰水潑在了他可憐的木頭腦袋、肩膀和全身上。 - Of course, it's easy to pour cold water on some of the assumptions made in Edlund and Korn's mathematical model.
FORBES: The Economics Of Prostitution - "We are delighted that concerns raised by the Center for Security Policy last month seem to have helped to pour cold water on this highly dubious transaction, " says Gaffney.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy Applauds State Department - In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.
ECONOMIST: The return of pricing power